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Slavery in Haiti, Again (Or: What's the Worth of a Haitian Child? Part II)

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Beverly Bell

In Haiti, the only nation ever to host a successful slave revolution, 225,000 to 300,000 children live in forced and usually violent servitude in a system known as restavèk.